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The Ron Brown Award for Corporate Leadership is a U.S. presidential honor to recognize companies "for the exemplary quality of their relationships with employees and communities". It is presented to companies that "have demonstrated a deep commitment to innovative initiatives that not only empower employees and communities but also advance strategic business interests".

ident Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton

William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton served as the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He was the fifteenth Democrat elected to that office....
, along with prominent business leaders, established the award in 1997 following Ron Brown
Ron Brown (U.S. politician)

Ronald Harmon Brown , was the United States Secretary of Commerce, serving during the first term of President of the United States Bill Clinton....
's death.






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The Ron Brown Award for Corporate Leadership is a U.S. presidential honor to recognize companies "for the exemplary quality of their relationships with employees and communities". It is presented to companies that "have demonstrated a deep commitment to innovative initiatives that not only empower employees and communities but also advance strategic business interests".

Establishment

President Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton

William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton served as the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He was the fifteenth Democrat elected to that office....
, along with prominent business leaders, established the award in 1997 following Ron Brown
Ron Brown (U.S. politician)

Ronald Harmon Brown , was the United States Secretary of Commerce, serving during the first term of President of the United States Bill Clinton....
's death. The Conference Board
The Conference Board

The Conference Board, Inc. is a non-profit global business organization supported by business executives that holds conferences, convenes executives and conducts business management research....
, a non-profit organization, was chosen to manage the award's administration. Ron Brown was the U.S. Secretary of Commerce from 1993-1996; he was the first African-American to hold that position. This award and the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award
Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award

The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is given by the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology. Through the actions of the National Productivity Advisory Committee chaired by Jack Grayson,, it was established by the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Improvement Act of 1987 - Public Law 100-107 and named for Howard...
 are the two presidential awards to corporations.

Ceremony

The award is presented in an annual White House ceremony, either by the President or by the Secretary of Commerce.

Recipients


2006-2007

  • Exelon
    Exelon

    Exelon Corporation is an electricity generating and distributing company headquartered in Chicago. It was created in October, 2000 by the merger of PECO Energy Company and Unicom, of Philadelphia and Chicago respectively....
  • Northrop Grumman Corporation
  • Procter & Gamble
    Procter & Gamble

    Procter & Gamble Co. is a Fortune 500, United States multinational corporation headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, that manufactures a wide range of Fast moving consumer goods....


2005-2006

  • Sallie Mae
  • Weyerhaeuser Company


2004-2005

  • S. C. Johnson & Son
    S. C. Johnson & Son

    S. C. Johnson , previously known as SC Johnson Wax , is a global manufacturer of household cleaning supplies and other consumer chemicals based in Racine, Wisconsin, Wisconsin....
  • Bayer Corporation
  • Johnson & Johnson
    Johnson & Johnson

    Johnson & Johnson is a global United States pharmaceutical, medical devices and consumer packaged goods manufacturer founded in 1886. Its common stock is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the company is listed among the Fortune 500....


2003-2004

  • JPMorgan Chase
  • KeySpan Corporation
  • Luxottica
    Luxottica

    Luxottica Group S.p.A. is the world's biggest glasses company. Its best known brands include Ray-Ban, Sunglass Hut International, Persol and the recently acquired Oakley, Inc.....


2002-2003

  • Cisco Systems
    Cisco Systems

    Cisco Systems, Inc. is a multinational corporation with more than 66,000 employees and annual revenue of United States dollar39 billion as of 2008....
  • Fannie Mae


2001-2002

  • SBC Communications
  • Timberland
    The Timberland Company

    Timberland is a trademark for a number of lines of outdoors wear, primarily boots, manufactured by The Timberland Company. Its three key locations are in Stratham, New Hampshire; Danville, Kentucky; and Ontario, California....
  • Wal-Mart Stores


2000-2001

  • Alcoa
    Alcoa

    Alcoa, Inc. is the world's third largest producer of aluminum, behind Rio Tinto Alcan and Rusal. From its operational headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Alcoa conducts operations in 44 countries....
  • Merck
    Merck & Co.

    Merck & Co., Inc. , also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme or MSD outside the USA and Canada, is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world....
  • United Parcel Service
    United Parcel Service

    United Parcel Service, Inc. , commonly referred to as UPS, is the world's largest package delivery company. UPS delivers more than 15 million packages a day to 6.1 million customers in more than 200 countries and territories around the world....


1999-2000

  • General Mills
    General Mills

    General Mills is a Fortune 500 corporation, mainly concerned with food products, which is headquartered in Golden Valley, Minnesota, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis, Minnesota....
  • GTE
    GTE

    GTE Corporation was the largest of the "independent" United States of America telephone companies during the days of the Bell System. It acquired the third largest independent, Contel in 1991....
  • Hewlett-Packard
    Hewlett-Packard

    The Hewlett-Packard Company , commonly referred to as HP, is a technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States....
  • IBM Corporation
  • US WEST
    US West

    U S WEST, Inc. was a RBOC, one of seven "Baby Bells" that were spawned by the antitrust breakup of American Telephone & Telegraph in 1983. It provided telephone and data service to several Pacific Northwest and mountain states....


1998-1999

  • Anheuser-Busch Companies
  • BankBoston
    BankBoston

    BankBoston was a bank based in Boston, Massachusetts, which was created by the 1996 merger of Bank of Boston and BayBank. Bank of Boston had a venerable history dating back to 1784, but the merged BankBoston was short-lived, being acquired by Fleet Bank in 1999....
  • Cascade Engineering
  • Seafirst Bank
    Seafirst Bank

    Seafirst Corporation was a bank holding company based in Seattle, Washington, Washington.Formed on November 11, 1929, from the merger of Seattle, Washington's three largest banks, the First National Bank Group, the Dexter Horton National Bank , and Seattle National Bank, the bank was originally named First Seattle Dexter Horton National...


1997-1998

  • IBM Corporation
  • Levi Strauss & Co.
    Levi Strauss & Co.

    Levi Strauss & Co. is a privately held clothing company known worldwide for its Levi's brand of denim jeans. It was founded in 1853 when Levi Strauss came from Bavaria, Germany to San Francisco, California to open a west coast branch of his brothers' New York dry goods business....


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